Job Scheduling Tools

Job scheduling tools manage the flow of work on systems. This category includes batch job schedulers and workload balancing applications working at the application (rather than system) level. It does not include workload balancing applications that work at the system level (e.g., high-availability software). The following are representative vendors and products in this market:

• BMC (Control-M)
• Computer Associates (CA-7, CA-11, and CA-AutoSys)
• IBM (Tivoli Workload Scheduler)
• Cybermation
• UC4